It was raining when I left home and It was pouring down when I left Pub Anchor. The nightbus had the meanest airconditioning ever but still…I´m not sick. Yet. Anyway, ´was glad I went because it was a good party. Too tired to tell you so much about it but the galleries are up now.
F.K.Û!! Finally!! At last!! Oh, the horror!!! How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…(Elizabeth Barrett Browning). The Horror Metal Moshing Machine celebrated their last album “Where Moshers Dwell” with a party at Kafe 44 together with The Ugly, Club Distortion and lots of fellow moshers. The crowd almost moshed the hell of me and my camera when I tried to take some pics during the show so I had to stay in the “safe” spots most of the time. Just for to remeber that there are NO safe spots at the venue. Big thanks to my human shields Findus & Peter, who sometimes tried to keep me from being moshed to atoms.
The sing-a-long song of the evening: The Pit and The Poser.
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The Ugly is a band I truly love in this world and I´ve only seen great gigs with these guys. Inky is also one of the most weird and charismatic frontfigures in the country.
A couple of things with them I never forget….the intro that blew me totally away the first time I saw them at Tanto for a couple of years (?) ago and the crazy gig at Anchor when Inky jumped right into the moshpit in the middle of a song and all hell breaks loose…and Sophie, who HAS to be used to any kinds of stuff running a metalclub and all, got out of the place ´til things cooled down a bit. Good times:) Fantastic night all together….
This time, warming up for F.K.Û, they were one guitarist short so the sound wasn´t exactly the same, but still it was so goood!! The new album rules also, btw!!
The band brought along a filmcrew and filmed some musicvid for “The Pit and The Poser” shooting sometime in between theirs and The Uglys soundcheck. The whole gig was also filmed.
The festival was running a bit late so DBA had to shorten their set and skip the smalltalk between the songs…
I know…Andrew W.K. is so NOT metal (well…maybe a little bit:) but he was so much fun and the crowd were going crazy partying on and off the stage. So I just have to post it here, too.
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A short video from the very end of the show
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One of the BESThardcore bands out there…and they just getting better. Last time I saw them was actually at the first Stagedive (2006) when it all ended up in somewhat chaotic last minute changing of venue and lots of crazy stuff…the new place was a pub so all the kids who wanted to see the bands couldn´t get in because the agelimit. The bands pretty much ended up playing for eachother.
The first hours in Nykvarn was hell. Was so tired I felt sick and I was in a really bad mood.
Seeing Intohimo on the Close Up stage made me feel better already and the Sonic gig and some extracoffee did the rest. Now it was really sad because this was the absolutely last Swedish concert with Roland in the band. Still, I think it will be great with the new guy, Nathan. He´s a nice guy, looks good, and seems to get along with the rest of the band really well. And they tell me he´s an amazing singer. So what else do you need?
He also took care of that I got some coffee at the hotel in GBG. As I said, a really nice guy;) Forgot the breakfastpic in the last post so send it up here instead)
The first time I saw Sonic Syndicate outdoors and instead for shooting in the photopit, I kept on using the zoomlens and found my self a good spot on a slope behind the crowd (which was btw going crazy during the show:)) and had a really good overall view.
Some random shots
Roadtrip with Linda and her Dennis to Gothenburg. Met Renata (Pieni) at the trainstation and we went off to Sticky Fingers for the Sonic Syndicate gig. While I was waiting outside the station drinking coffee, trying to keep awake, Pelle Hellbutcher Nifelheim came along and we chattered for awhile. Really nice surprice to see him there:)
The pics i took for the latest Nifelheim album ( Envoy of Lucifer ) came out quite good, so I will hopefully get involved when the next one´s in making. And hope it doesn´t take seven years between the albums this time…in which case. Irrespective of me taking the pics or not;)
Anyway, after some sightseeing, we found the venue and had some dinner at the Thairestaurant right next to Sticky. Unfortunatly we missed the Skiller gig. Haven´t seen them for awhile and nowadays they also “belong” to Mike (Sonic manager). Took a couple of pics on Walking with Strangers and just waited for the Sonic gig to start…
Rolands last but one gig in Sweden with the band and they did really good as always. Can´t really remember seeing a lousy Sonic Syndicate gig:) It also was a bit sad knowing one of them will soon be gone.
Daniel picked us up afterwards and took us to his place. 2 hrs of sleep and then out & away again to the hotel S.S. were staying. The plan was to get a ride with the band back to Stockholm, but it showed that there wasn´t any room for us and our stuff in the small bus after all, so we took the train instead. Quick stop at my house, then moved on to the Stagedive Day Out in Nykvarn.
Last time I saw the Vampyric metalband Lamia Antitheus live was at the Dead Generation festival for a couple a years ago. Back then without Letheus, the original vocalist. They got this female singer instead and I really don´t remember how she sounded like…Anyway, this time there was the full line-up with Letheus (which i used to know as a photographer;)) and all, and they really sounded pretty good.
Nice guys, nice trip…we can do it again anytime! Next time I want one of those t-shirts!;)
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